NOUN
- the Calvinist doctrine that everyone is born in a state of corruption as a result of original sin
How To Use total depravity In A Sentence
- Some of the little folks we watch grow up to be young women, and occasionally one of them gets nervous, what we call hysterical, and then that girl will begin to play all sorts of pranks, -- to lie and cheat, perhaps, in the most unaccountable way, so that she might seem to a minister a good example of total depravity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
- Total depravity is the fallen state of man as a result of original sin. Archive 2009-06-01
